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Spring 1998
Kaspar Hauser Speaks
Ladies and gentlemen of Nuremberg. Distinguished guests. It is with no small measure of amazement that I stand before you today, on the occasion of the third anniversary of my […]
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Summer 1993
In Broad Daylight
While I was eating corn cake and jellyfish at lunch, our gate was thrown open and Bare Hips hopped in. His large wooden pistol was stuck partly inside the waist […]
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Autumn 1992
Civilwarland in Bad Decline
When a potential big investor comes for the tour the first thing I always do is take them out to the transplanted Erie Canal Lock. We’ve got a good ninety […]
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Autumn 1985
Pounding the Dog
We are very much like the dead,” Mary tells me, “except that we have the use of our senses.” She is kneading Polish sausage meat with her bare hands. Clouds […]
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Winter 1979
The Old Folks
Who is not in league? The children waddle toward me, blue pants on the bigger one, yellow on the other. I lift them on the train. Away we go! We […]
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Summer 1965
The Puzzleheaded Girl
Debrett liked his job in the old-style German bank in Broad Street, but he soon saw that the partners’ sons were coming into the firm and he could not rise […]
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Winter 1964
The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies
“As I tell Kitty, this summer job of hers is really more a vacation with pay than work. What wouldn’t I give to be up there in the mountains away […]
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Summer 1956
Greenleaf
Mrs. May’s bedroom window was low and faced on the east and the bull, silvered in the moonlight, stood under it, his head raised as if he listened—like some patient […]
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Autumn 1948
The World’s Fair
All that afternoon Francis knew that part of Dinah wanted to be rid of him, to be swiftly busy with her own affairs. She was short in her speech when […]
Desperate Characters
A collection of fiction selected by Deputy Editor Elliott Holt.